Ollie LovellIt’s exam time and your students are preparing. You’re going around the class, observing how students are studying and, shock…
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As mentioned in my previous post I’m currently participating in the Bastow Institute’s Create: Middle Leaders program. In that previous post…
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I’m currently participating in the Bastow Institute’s Create: Middle Leaders program. Our first major activity was to take photos in our…
Continue ReadingTOT012: Knowledge Management, Hiring, + more Twitter Takeaways
Teacher Ollie’s Takeaways is a weekly post (and sometimes a podcast!) bringing together all of the fascinating things that Ollie…
Continue ReadingERRR Podcast #005. Pamela Snow, Phonics + How can we get the real story from students?
Listen to all past episodes of the ERRR podcast here. The ERRR podcast can also be listened to on Spotify,…
Continue ReadingHow do we know what to put on the weekly quiz?
To see how this practice fit into my broader instructional approach throughout 2017, see this post. I’ve really enjoyed working…
Continue ReadingTOT011: Teaching Curiosity, Pre-questioning + more Twitter Takeaways
Teacher Ollie’s Takeaways is a weekly post (and sometimes a podcast!) bringing together all of the fascinating things that Ollie…
Continue ReadingInvaluable diagnostic assessment tasks for any physics teacher.
From University of York, Department of Education. Link here. Here’s the menu: Well worth a look!
Continue ReadingAssessment feedback: Processes to ensure that students think!
We know that ‘Memory is the residue of thought’ (Daniel Willingham) and that in order for our students to learn…
Continue ReadingTOT010: The limits of ‘evidence based’ education + more Twitter Takeaways
Teacher Ollie’s Takeaways is a weekly post (and sometimes a podcast!) bringing together all of the fascinating things that Ollie…
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